Matsyapurana 43.35

43.35

karotyāloḍayanneva doḥsahasreṇa sāgaram
mandarakṣobhacakitā hy amṛtotpādaśaṅkitāḥ //

When he would break the surges and powder the sharks and the fish, &c., by his thousand arms, and remove the foam arising out by contact of the wind, he really looked as if he was annihilating the very ocean. At that time, by the tremour of the Mandara Mount, the mighty serpents clustering round it, trembled with fear, thinking that they might again be employed in the churning of the ocean to get out nectar; they were quiet like the plantain leaf that does not shiver in the evening when there is no wind to shake it.—34-36.